From 3268d34951db85a913d227b637759c57e6d13f37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:14:54 +0100
Subject: open_issues/performance/fork: Suggest some reading about Windows /
 Cygwin issues.

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diff --git a/open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn
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--- a/open_issues/performance/fork.mdwn
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
 
 [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
 id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
@@ -14,3 +14,24 @@ Our [[`fork` implementation|glibc/fork]] is nontrivial.
 
 To do: hard numbers.
 [[Microbenchmarks]]?
+
+
+# Windows / Cygwin
+
+  * <http://www.google.com/search?q=cygwin+fork>
+
+  * <http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/cygnus/cygnus_cygwin/architecture.html>
+
+    In particular, *5.6. Process Creation*.
+
+  * <http://archive.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=360290>
+
+  * <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/how-cygheap-works.txt?cvsroot=src>
+
+    > Cygwin has recently adopted something called the "cygwin heap".  This is
+    > an internal heap that is inherited by forked/execed children.  It
+    > consists of process specific information that should be inherited.  So
+    > things like the file descriptor table, the current working directory, and
+    > the chroot value live there.
+
+  * <http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=588994>
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